Insert a USB flash drive (or SD CardNotes) with 2 GB or more of free space into your computer.

Boot your computer with the CD-ROM disc. You probably need to press F1, F10, F12, Esc, or a similar key as the computer starts up in order to set the boot source for your computer to the CD-ROM device.

A successful boot will take you into Sugar on a Stick. You can From there, open the Terminal Activity, , from the Home list View.

Switch to run commands with 'root' user permissions by entering su - on the command line.

Important change since Fedora 24 SoaSThe livecd-iso-to-disk installation script is no longer packaged in the SoaS .iso file. Starting with Fedora 24, if you want a Live USB with persistent storage, you must install the livecd-tools package to obtain the installation script and the SYSLINUX boot loader. Use this command to obtain the installer:sudo dnf install livecd-tools

Verify the USB/SD scsi drive node name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.) for your USB/SD device. It would look like, for example, /dev/sdb1.

The df -Th command shows your device filesystem on a device node, for example, /dev/sdb1, mounted on a directory mount point, such as /run/media/liveuser/<USBdeviceManufacturer>

Insert a USB flash drive (or SD CardNotes) with 2 GB or more of free space into your computer.

Launch Live USB Creator.

Select Either

1) the 'Browse' button to 'Use existing Live CD' and find the downloaded .iso file image on your system.

2) Download Fedora and select Fedora-SoaS-{i386|x86_64}-{22|23} (This automates the download and checksum routine and directly burns to the USB/ SDCard

Adjust the Persistent Storage slider. This enables you to save changes to the system and additional Sugar Activities onto the device. (aka persistence file or Overlay --this space by default is write once only) --see below for additional way to make /home a rw overlay

Select your flash drive as the target, and click the Create Live USB button.

With the latest version of Fedora LiveUSB Creator you have TWO (2) option for burning method

1) CP (non destructive) -- meaning you can still use the unused space on a larger (8-16-32-64Gb) usb for whatever post burn.

2) DD ( the old school way) Note: THIS WILL destroy any previous data make sure you properly select the drive to use AND make backups of any pre-existing important data (you will not be easily able to retrieve overwritten data)

Wait for the process to finish, then close the Live USB Creator program.

The '?' in the final parameter represents the target USB device scsi drive node, such as sdb1 or sdc1, etc., and /path/to/downloaded.iso is the location and name of the .iso file.

The operating system will occupy ~960 MB, and the overlay and home size arguments, 500 and 500, were selected to fit in a 2 GB device. These may be adjusted depending on your preferences and device capacity (see LiveOS image). On a 4 GB device, one might use 1000 and 1600 for the size arguments.

Note: The graphical Liveusb-creator is an alternative installation method (see the first Windows method), but it does not create the separate home.img filesystem, and so, the write-once persistent storage on the disk is more quickly consumed (see LiveOS image). If the USB device does not boot after running Liveusb-creator, the command liveusb-creator --reset-mbr may help.

SoaS on VirtualBox

With VirtualBox® one can run Sugar on Microsoft Windows, Intel-based Apple Macintosh, or GNU/Linux host computers from within a virtual machine window.

See this VirtualBox overview. VirtualBox is a large software installation with many features and operating system options. A User Manual and other documentation is available online. Those who have not used VirtualBox before, might find it more easy to understand and install than expected.

The following instructions are intended for those Learners interested in using VirtualBox to run Sugar. The process is not fully mature as the technology is evolving both in the VirtualBox and operating system software.

You can watch a screencast video of the process with an earlier version of SoaS on a Mac here:

In VirtualBox click New

Click Next

Enter a name "Sugar"

Operating System: choose Linux

Version: choose Fedora

Click Next

For memory leave 256 MB

Click Next

Virtual Hard Disk click Existing

Click the little folder to the right of the selection box

A new window pops up

Click Add button in the toolbar

Browse to the location where you extracted the .vdi disk image

Click Open

Click Select

Click Next

Click Finish

Select Sugar on the left

Click Start in the toolbar

After a minute or two you should see the Sugar screen asking for you name

Enter your name

Click Done at the bottom of the window. You might have to scroll.

From now on you can start VirtualBox and start the "Sugar" virtual machine

Setup a Virtual Machine for Ubuntu Sugar

Use Ubuntu Software Centre to install the virtualbox-guest-utils package, so that your virtual machine display can be resized to fit your computer.

Issues

Activating the Frame might be a little difficult. The lower 2 corners are easiest and you may want to configure edge activation in the My Settings > Frame panel. With VirtualBox Guest Additions installed (see here), only the bottom edge and corners are available for Frame activation.

On Mac keyboards, you might wish to change the Virtual Box default key for switching the Sugar cursor to the normal one, as the default key (control right arrow on Mac keyboards) is trapped by Sugar. (Windows and Linux keyboards use Right Ctrl.) You may do this change in File/settings of the Virtual Box menu.